French navy hands over suspected pirates to Somalia (The Star)
BOSSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – French navy officers handed over 22 suspected Somali pirates to semi-autonomous Puntland’s authorities and they will be arraigned in local courts, officials said on Saturday.
Death toll rises, civilians flee from Mogadishu’s renewed violence (People’s Daily)
The fighting of the past days in the Somali capital Mogadishu has claimed the lives of more than 100 and wounded 150 others with thousands of civilians uprooted from their homes, analysts say. The Mogadishu fighting erupted Wednesday after weeks of speculation of a major Somali government offensive on rebel forces who control substantial parts of the capital. Most of the clashes center around …
Seventeen dead in Somalia land clashes (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Fighting between rival clans in Somalia left at least 17 people dead on Saturday, most of them militiamen, with bodies littering the streets of one village, elders said.
20 killed in inter-clan clashes in central Somalia (Press TV)
Clashes between rival clans have left at least 20 people dead in the Mudug region of central Somalia, where sub-clans of the Hawiye tribe are battling over water and land.
US has no plan to ‘Americanize’ Somalia conflict (Deepika)
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (Reuters) The United States denied coordinating plans by Somalia’s embattled government to launch an offensive against Islamist fighters, saying it had no plans to ”Americanize” the conflict.
French Navy hands over suspected pirates to Somalia (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Naval officers hand over 22 pirates, holding 11 others * Pirates attempt to hijack German cargo vessel (Corrects spelling of police officer’s name) By Abdiqani Hassan BOSSASO, Somalia, …
At least 75 killed in fighting in Somali capital (CNN)
At least 75 people have been killed in clashes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu since fighting broke out earlier this week between government forces and Al-Shabaab rebels, medical sources and a witness said Saturday.
Can a fatwa solve Somalia’s problems? (Guardian Unlimited)
Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been busy of late. This weekend he is attending a summit in Dubai , along with an international cast of scholars and clerics, to refute the ideologies of groups that “abuse the name of sharia by imposing their own literal, ill-informed interpretations onto others”.
French navy hands over suspected pirates to Somalia (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Naval officers hand over 22 pirates, holding 11 others * Pirates attempt to hijack German cargo vessel (Adds details, colour) By Abdiqani Hassan BOSSASO, Somalia, March 13 (Reuters) – …
